[Python-africa] PyDay Zimbabwe

[Ibrahim DIOP]

Hello,

This is very sad. Political issues shouldn't be blockers for such events.
I would like to help. Please let me know how.
What about setting up a crowdfunding campaign? I'm sure a lot of us will be
willing to help

Thanks,
-Ibrahim

Le sam. 13 août 2016 à 12:49, Anna Makarudze <amakarudze at gmail.com> a
écrit :

> Hi Daniele,
>
> I hope I find you well.
>
> Please find below a quote of part of the email which explains how it was
> communicated to us:
>
> "Unfortunately, the Python Software Foundation is currently unable to fund
> your grant request ... due to the  OFAC sanctions levied against
> Zimbabwe. We have tried to find other options, but because of these US Treasury
> OFAC sanctions, any wire sent to Zimbabwe has to be under a general OFAC
> license. Our experience with OFAC is that the documentation requirements
> are rather extreme, the penalties are heavy, and any documents submitted
> will be very carefully scrutinized by the banks.
>
>
> https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/Documents/zimb.pdf
>
> At this time, we have concluded that this is too risky for the PSF. We are
> very sorry, but we will have to withdraw our financial support for your
> grant request."
>
> This was for a grant request which PSF had pledged but later withdrew for
> the reasons cited above.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Anna
>
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>> Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 20:40:42 +0100
>> From: "Daniele Procida" <daniele at vurt.org>
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>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016, Humphrey <hbutau at msn.com> wrote:
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>> >We are facing a mammoth task in making our event possible as we have
>> >just found out that we can no longer receive funding from the Python
>> >Software Foundation. We were organizing Django Girls Masvingo, and we
>> >received an email from the P.S.F in which they said they could no longer
>> >sponsor our event as our country, Zimbabwe is under sanctions from the
>> >United States Government.
>>
>> This is very sad to hear.
>>
>> Can you provide any more information about how this was explained to you?
>>
>> Maybe there is another way to help.
>>
>> Daniele
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